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If you are interested to support us, the 17 following
questions have their legitimacy, as you would want to know exactly
what we will do.

If you are not, you will discover principles
that will challenge your view of the Church.

What is so special about your 9 core values?

My 9 core values have one purpose only: to help us
becoming more like Jesus.

I seek to have relationship with God that has passion,
a willingness to seek the truth and to embrace any painful changes with
faith.

I view all Christian relationships primarly through one
lens: will my character improve?

I see this lost world in one way only: win
and disciple as many as possible, through the miraculous power of the
Holy Spirit.

In Ukraine, such values are good news because people there
are deeply longing to have totally open, truthful and grace-oriented
relationships.

In the following
youtube video of 26 minutes, Yves
Perriard explains in a very clear, challenging and practical way why
such 9 core values have the
power to bring radical changes to our lives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83MXWj-2PD8

What
is the relevance of having a LARGE church of a few thousand people?

For the sake of the poor and the forgotten. In
our western context, large churches rarely revolutionize the social
landscape of their cities, because most believers are expected to be
financially independent and the poor can always rely on the government
for help. In Ukraine, people fight their battles completely on their
own because it is impossible to count on neither the government nor
anyone for financial help. This is why a church of 10 000 Christians
who have been trained to trust and help each other can really become
a mini-society that can effectively help the poor.

What
makes you believe that the Odessa Church will have such a numerical
growth?

We will use the Master'
strategy:
every Christian will be trained not only to convert, but to disciple
the people they have converted. This is what Jesus did when he
focused on only 12, and this model explains the exponential growth
of the early church.

We will have high
retention rate
thanks to our strong emphasis on mutual friendships (see our 9
core values)

We will have "power
evangelism"
(healings, miracles, prophetic, interpretation of dreams, etc..)
on the streets and sometimes within the house churches.

Every day
all our evangelists will spend a few hours in prayer and the rest
in street evangelism and friendship evangelism.

We will have seeker-sensitive
worship services (see below)

Every small
group will double its size
within 1 to 2 years and start another small group
(evangelists will train small group leaders who themselves will
train their future group leaders. Some of those leaders will
eventually become the future pastors of the house churches)

What makes you so convinced that the
supernatural will regularly happen in your church?

First of all, it
is clearly God's will that those who "eagerly seek
the spiritual gifts" receive them (1 Cor.14:1). Secondly, since I
have personally ministered to thousands of people with healing,
deliverances and prophetic words, and trained many to reproduce my
own experience, I am convinced that the same will happen in Odessa. All
it takes for a church to move in the supernatural is that their main
leaders have a good experience of it, and that that they train their
people to do the same.

Why do you want your large
"City-Church" to be decentralized into a network of
autonomous churches?

In Ukraine, the
biggest challenge of leadership is trust and therefore delegation. When
the founding leader of a large church keeps on controlling everything
and everyone, he eventually slows down his numerical growth or loses
some of his leaders who will leave him to start their own churches.
This is why wise leaders empower and fully delegate their authority to
their followers so as to create a decentralised, flexible and organic
church structure. This is the best way that strong
leaders can keep on working together,
while being at the same time autonomous. Additionally,
a decentralised network of independent churches is the best protection
against doctrinal divisions and persecutions.

Since trust and open
communication is such an issue in that culture, how will you build
unity ?

Initialy, I have
the cultural"advantage" of being more trusted since I
am NOT Ukrainian. I will use this to train
all my leaders to build totally open and truthful
relationships with each other. Furthermore, our
unity will be more based on buidling deep loyal friendships and
winning the lost, than fully agreeing on every doctrinal
point.

What is the big deal about restoring
the biblical role of evangelists?

It has the
most crucial and strategic importance to determine who is
influencing the Church for evangelism.Today the Church
has a structure in which pastors and teachers are the main
influence, so that very few churches know how to be evangelistic and
move in the supernatural. This is why most evangelists are relegated to
work alongside or outside churches, which is not the biblical model.

In the early
Church, evangelists had a direct and powerful influence on the churches
they had started, and this lasted long after they had left. The reason
is that those men led and temporary "pastored" the churches
they had founded, and this is why Timothy, who was an evangelist (2
Tim.4:5), received 2 letters that are called "pastoral".
After some time, evangelists appointed local pastors (Titus 1:5),
and therefore maintained the loyal and mentoring mentorship that
naturally comes in being spiritual parents. (see Paul with his
churches)

This is
why all our evangelists in Odessa will be in a position
of directly influencing pastors. They will not only start churches
through healing and the supernatural, but train the pastors they
have chosen to be evangelistic. After they have left to start
other churches, evangelists will maintain a
mentoring and very encouraging relationship with those pastors.
This way the whole atmosphere and structure of the Odessa church will
be strongly evangelistic.

What is then the main difference
between evangelists and pastors?

Evangelists
are more sensitive to the "outsiders", while pastors to
the "insiders", but it does not imply that pastors
should be introverted and not evangelistic. On the contrary, they
should win the respect of outsiders (1 Tim.3:7), be hospitable,
and even have a strong faith for healing (see the incredible faith
of elders in James 5:16!).

At the same
time, the primary gift of pastors is to keep the
harmony of their flock and work together with other pastors
(I believe in the plurality of pastors within ONE local church). These
are qualities that evangelists must learn
from pastors if they want to have a more sensitive
and group-oriented leadership.

In other words, mature
pastors must learn to be evangelistic,

but
mature evangelists must develop pastoral qualities.

This
is the primary reason we need to restore a church
structure where they are closely working
together, so as to mutually influence each other.
These 2 ministries were never meant to be stuck in their primary gifts
and hardly interact with each other. The model of the NT is a deep interdependence of all ministries, so
that we all learn from each other and grow to the
fulness of Christ.

And what is the difference between
evangelists and apostles?

Many tend
to think that supernaturally empowered leaders who have planted
many churches are "apostles", when in most cases they are
simply evangelists. True biblical apostles are
exceedingly "far more" than evangelists:
they have seen the Lord directly, they train young evangelists to plant
churches, they plant on no one else's foundation in new and challenging
areas, they have frequent and extraordinary miracles, and because of
their incredible impact at the highest level and on vast areas, they
have ongoing persecutions and often are viewed as the scum of the
world! Such biblical features not only redefine most "apostles"
today, but it sets the bar of self-denial, love and true biblical
authority at the right height. Myself, I am
only a simple evangelist, which is why such apostolic
characteristics inspire me and challenge me to take it higher!

What about prophets?

By God's grace
we hope to raise some in our midst, but since it takes time, the
first few years we will invite mature prophets from outside. These men
or women will all be accountable to a good local church and
have a solid reputation that can be thoroughly tested.
Solo-Weirdos who listen to no one are not going to be invited.

What will be special about your
Sunday church services?

We will
bring 2 characteristics which are difficult to merge, but
when they do, it is an explosive chemistry :

1)
Being radically "seeker-sensitive"

We
will have short and very relevant sermons, no religious
language or dress-code, an emotional atmosphere and a music
that speaks clearly and directly to outsiders. For instance,
depending on the kind of services (for young or older people), we will
use and even mix together all kinds of musical genres that
"speaks" to outsiders, whether it is Christian rap, techno,
hill song, jewish, acapella, classical or Ukrainian folk music. To
have an example of how we could reach students in Odessa, you
can go to the following links ("morethan12.org" is
a original and fantastic Canadian church
I helped starting in East Vancouver, by far the most
unchurched place in North America):

At the same
time, we will intentionally use the spiritual gifts of the most mature
Christians (whether healings, prophetic words, interpretation of
dreams, etc...) so that all Christians will be edified while
unbelievers will "fall on their face and declare that God is
our midst".

Because of the
above, the much "deeper" biblical teaching will be
given within the house churches during the week.

Why such a special love for the Jews?

Jews have always
played the most crucial role in God's strategy to
change the world. The more will know their Messiah, the more it will be
like "life from the dead" for this world. Odessa has more
than 50 000 Jews, and the city has been always been known for its strong
Jewish influence. (25 years ago, it had more than 30% Jews). This is why we
will not be afraid to be known as a haven of protection for them, as
anti-Semitism is growing in Ukraine, and to integrate some Jewish
elements within our church culture. This way our church will have a
mixture as unique as the "jewish" city of Odessa.

How will you use the
Church offerings of the Odessa Church?

We will use
money for evangelists to be raised in the ministry,
because the more of them can work full time, the more the church will
grow in numbers. Then the remaining will go to evangelistic
projects, to the poor, and finally to
some pastors who are gifted in teaching. Since
we will not have any kind of church centralisation, there will be
hardly any money for administration and we will not build any church
building.

How and with whom will you start the
Odessa Church?

We already have 3-4
other evangelist couples (2 on the pic below), a dozen
of mature leaders and skiled musicians, and about 50 Christians from
a Church in Odessa with whom we could start our work. In other words,
the potential to start "fast and furious" is very good.

Initially, we
will all remain together in one growing church. Eventually,
our couples will divide and start all over the city their own
house churches that will have all sorts of small groups. I
will equip them to do all the teaching and leadership training
within those house churches. We will all meet together every
week in a rented place for a common worship service.

Who
will be your sending church to whom you will be financially and
spiritually accountable?

Spiritually, it
will be the home church with whom we have been the last
few years in Canada, the Lifeway Church (http://www.lifewaychurch-bc.ca), but
we will develop strong ties of prayer and mutual encouragement with
all our financial supporters.

Financially, we
will be accountable (and even "auditable") to the mission
organisation to whom you will send your money,
whether it is in the US or in Canada.

How
will you keep us updated about your work?

I will send a short
weekly newsletter of just one page (400-500 words), to which I will
sometimes add videos links. That letter will be posted on FB as
well.

What will be unique and never heard
of in our missionary partenership?

Whenever I will
be visiting your church on a missionary furlough, I will do
"more" than sharing about our missionary work.
If possible, I will always have healing and prophetic ministry such
that it will be a win-win situation in
which you can be touched by God and at the same time I can
inform many people about our work.